Oil_Fan

My local LFS was having a huge sale on Saturday/Sunday with all of their livestock at 50% off. One of the fish I picked up on Saturday was yellow tang. Take a look at this picture and look just above his eye. You'll see a brown spot.

Normal? Stress induced maybe? Something else??

I'm pretty sure it wasn't there yesterday. He is eating normally and swimming around like nothing is wrong.

Shawnie

not sure about his eye but what an incredible looking fish!!!! im sure someone will be along to help

Peterpiper

Hi Oil_Fan,
Your tang is looking a little thin around the tummy. Tangs require a lot of LR with algae to feed on. We are feeding ours ( powder blue tang ) with mysis enriched with garlic, blood worms and nori ( dried seaweed ).
Tangs are grazers, and need to have a supply of food, so if your tank is still young I would look at feeding him some nori ( 2" sq ) 2-3 times a day.

Oil_Fan

He is definitely thin!! My main tank is 5 months old now but he's currently in my quarantine tank right now. I have some newer LR in there along a big piece of base rock that's been in my main tank up until 2 weeks ago. But even then I doubt that's enough for him to graze on.

For food right now, I just have the regular Sally's Seaweed Salad, normal mysis shrimp and brine shrimp. I know too that brine isn't the best thing. I'll check the clip before work tomorrow to put more seaweed salad on there.

But I will pick the nori and the other stuff tomorrow after work. Thanks for the help.